DAIRYING IN MISSOURI 

PUBLISHED UNDER A U ',' H O R I T Y OF THE 

MISSOURI COMMISSION 
LOUISIANA PURCHASE EXPOSITION 

St. Louis, Missouri, 1904 




DAIRY DEPARTMENT 

n. P, STKOUP, Chitirman 

W W. MAKPLIi, Superintendent 






MISSOURI COMMISSION 
LOUISIANA P U R C II A S K EXPOSITION 

M. T. Davis, President. Springfiekl L. F. Pakker, St. I.ouis 

F. J. Moss, Vice President, St. Joseph D. P. Strouv, Norborne 

B. H. BoNioEV, Secretary. Unionville N. H. Gentry, Sedalia 

I. H. Hawthorne, Treasurer, Kansas City J. O. Allison, New Londo 



DAIRYING IN MISSOURI 




|HE history of dairying in Missouri is industry was nurtured and fostered to any great 
not unlike that of other countries, extent. The resources of Missouri were so varied 
It's a story of early obscurity and and so extensive and pronounced in all of them, 
future prominence. It's an old story the faithful Missouri cow was neglected for the 
and yet like the old, old story of love that for six Missouri mule. The production of milk was 
thousand years has been whispered in the ears of neglected for the raising of beef. The manufac- 
millions of willing listeners, and millions more of tureof butter was of no consequence compared with 
impatient, anxious mortals are waiting for it to the raising of corn. Instead of cheese factories, 
be told over and over again to them, it is ever the country abounded in tobacco barns. Finally 
refreshing and acceptable to all of the people of the people of this great commonwealth "were 
some countries and some of the people of all shown." Their attention was called to the fact 
countries. that this was the best climate in the world for 
Since the persistent wandering of a nation of obtaining the greatest results in dairying; that Mis- 
people, thousands of years ago, for forty years in souri possessed the most luxuriant growth of 
the wilderness, to keep from getting into a dairy grass and the best quality of any State in the 
country where they would have to milk, history Union; that our country was well watered, and 
has repeated itself many times and the favorable that all of the conditions were favorable for 
conditions that have existed in different sections making this an ideal dairy country in which the 
for doing a profitable dairy business has been dis- business might be carried on with a greater profit 
regarded for the promotion of some other branch than in any other country. The evidence was 
of agriculture less profitable. sufficient and in three or four years Missouri 
Like all other countries engaged in dairying, grass was being converted into milk, Missouri 
Missouri required a practical illustration of the milk was being made into butter and cheese, 
benefits to be derived from an active interest in The cattle on a thousand hills were high grade 
this particular branch of agriculture, before the milk cows. The wonderful crops of grain and 

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roughness (suitable for the production of milk) 
that never failed was sold to the highest market 
in all the country, and sold for cash to the Mis- 
souri mortgage lifter, the faithful dairy cow. The 
outcome of this dairy sentiment and the inaugu- 
ration of this business was the establishment of 
modern creameries in Missouri, among them the 
largest creamery in the world, the building of 
dairy barns, of which Missouri boasts the 
finest in the world, the erection of silos, the 
changing of corn land into pastures, the breeding 
of better stock, the making of better roads, the 
building of better houses, the beautifying and 
adorning of rural homes, and the encouragement 
of an enormous immigration by those people 
engaged in dairying, seeking the country where 
the largest amount of milk could be produced at 
the least cost and with the least labor. 

The Missouri farmer had carefully considered 
the matter. With his characteristic, conservative 
and careful disposition, he investigated the 
proposition thoroughly and, when his mind was 
settled, when he decided that dairying was the 
thing, he went at it right, and by his actions he 
said, "We will set an example worthy of 
imitation." 

He accepted up-to-date methods. He bought 
the best cows. He bred for butter, for milk, or 
for cheese, according to the demands of his 



particular market. The men who lived close to 
St. Louis, Hannibal, Kansas City, or St. Joseph, 
and other cities, and were willing to sell all of 
their milk, prepared to furnish their respective 
places with milk for family use, and the conse- 
quences — Train loads of good, pure, unadulterated 
milk may be seen going into the larger cities, and 
car loads and wagon loads into the smaller places 
every morning. 

The pure quality of this milk increased the 
consumption, and with the increased demand the 
price got better and the dairyman felt compensated 
for early rising and for the work necessary to 
prepare his product for market. 

The man who lived farther from market, and 
the man who wanted his milk to raise calves and 
pigs, the man that used to be entirely left because 
of his location, was not forgotten. In the new 
order of things he was well taken care of. He 
was provided with a good market, and every day 
the roads were lined with light wagons that 
glistened with milk cans full of good, rich cream 
on its way to the nearest railroad station, to be 
shipped to some large centralized creamery in 
Kansas City, St. Joseph, Hannibal, or some 
other enterprising Missouri city. 

Thousands of hand separators were sold. The 
cream was taken out of the milk while fresh, and 
the clean, warm skim milk was used to raise good 



calves ; and Missouri became a wonderful example 
of the many profits in dairying. 

Missouri sunshine, Missouri water, Missouri 
grass, Missouri feed, is all being used to produce 
milk, out of which an immense amount of butter 
and cheese is being made and the by-products go 
to raise calves and make pork. The size of Mis- 
souri, its climate, its location, the favorable con- 
ditions, all go to make it the future "Promised 
Land" of America, the central butter market of 
the world. 

Missouri has 750,000 to 800,000 dairy cows, 
and at the same time has sunshine and water and 
grass and feed and room enough to support 
10,000,000. 

Missouri's experiment station, which is in con- 
nection with the State University at Columbia, 
has a dairy building second to none in the United 
States, and the influence of the work done there 
is being felt to a marked degree all the time. 

Some remarkable records have been made by 
Missouri dairymen. Among these might be men- 
tioned Mr. Coleman, of Pettis county, who aver- 
aged from seven cows, in 1903, 400 pounds of but- 
ter each. He fed the skim milk to hogs, and after 
paying for all the feed given to his cows and hogs, 
he had a net profit of $850 from the proceeds. 

A Nodaway county man reports making §6, 000 
in six years on forty acres in the dairy business, 



and started absolutely without any capital. 

Goodrich Bros., of Henry county, have a herd 
of thirty cows that average 375 pounds of butter 
a year. 

Mr. Koontz, of Jasper county, has a herd of 
twenty-five to thirty cows that has averaged for 
several years nearly 400 pounds of butter a year. 

Hosmer & Son, of Marshfield, has a herd of 
seventy-five cows that averaged them last year over 
350 pounds of butter, one cow making 5 60 pounds. 

Mr. Schelpman, of Greene county, realized last 
year from his herd of twenty-five cows over 8125 
a head. 

Besides these there are hundreds of others of 
the same kind of records, all of which go to show 
the adaptability of Missouri for successful dairy- 
ing, and is sufficient explanation of why so much 
interest is being taken in the business all over the 
state. 

This interest is universal because the entire 
state is adapted to dairying. There is no section 
where conditions are unfavorable, and there is no 
section that to any marked degree possesses 
advantages over the rest of the state. Missouri 
as a whole is a dairy state, and the possibilities in 
every county for the production of milk in large 
quantities at a minimum cost, are unsurpassed 
anywhere in the world. 

The peculiar conditions that exist in Missouri 



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THE 

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favorable to the dairyman makes him fearless of healthy climate, have all gone to make a large 

competition, because he knows there is no population in our towns and cities, 

country where they can produce a pound of These are all consumers and each additional 

butter cheaper than he can here This is not all one has increased the outlet and improved the 

that interests him. He is convenient to a good market for the producer. Besides this, Missouri's 

market. The very large manufacturing, commer- market for dairy products is enhanced because of 

cial, and railroad interests of Misiouri, her its proximity to a section where the resources of 

educational advantages as shown in Academies, the people are in other lines, and where they 

Seminaries, and Universities almost without depend on some other country for their butter 

number, together with the advantages of a good and cheese. 



ART IN BUTTER 




ISSOURI'S butter exhibit at the thousands of people have seen this exhibit and 

Louisiana Purchase Exposition is the verdict has been universally the same — "A 

the greatest exhibit in its line the wonderful exhibit." Hundreds of people have 

world ever saw and is regarded expressed themselves as being fully compensated 

as one of the prominent attractions at this most for the expense of a trip to the World's Fair in 

wonderful World's Fair. this exhibit alone, even by some as far away as 

The Missouri Commission expended in the in- London, England; Edinburgh, Scotland, and 

stallation of this exhibit nearly ten thousand dol- Gouda, Holland. 

lars and it is not only of wonderful magnitude. In this impressive story so beautifully told in 

but shows in every detail the workmanship of a butter, through the skill of the sculptor, Mr. 

master artist. It tells a story that has not only Neilsen of St. Louis, there is more than appears 

interested those who have seen it, but in addition on the face of it. Like a western mirage, there is 

has impressed those interested with the import- reflected a wonderful and attractive picture in 

ance of this branch of agriculture. Hundreds of which can be seen a country that has reached the 

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highest state of agricultural development ; and a 
million and a half people on the farm enjoying all 
the comforts and luxuries that come with 
prosperity and success, as well as two millions of 
people in the cities of Missouri being furnished 
with the purest dairy products fresh from the 
farm and the factory. 

This picture has been engraved on the tablet of 
the memory of those who have seen it, never to 
be effaced or grow dim. And as they go to their 
homes in every quarter of the globe, its influence 
will be felt and it will always be a reminder that 
a cordial welcome and a happy home awaits those 
who desire to cast their lot and spend their lives 
in a land of milk and honey. 

In making a very liberal appropriation for the 
Dairy Department at the World's Fair, the Mis- 
souri Commission had in mind strictly a dairy 
exhibit; not only a work of art to be admired by 
the hundreds of thousands that would see it, but 
to impress our people with the importance of this 
branch of agriculture, tell our visitors what was 
being done now and show to the world the won- 
derful possibilities and golden opportunities along 
this line in the great commonwealth of Missouri. 
Their work in this direction has been completed. 
The great crowds of people who have seen this 
exhibit and into whose hands this little pamphlet 
may fall, must decide whether or not their 



effort has been in vain. Your decision will be 
final and your verdict will be satisfactory. 

The central figure in this exhibit is designed to 
represent "Ceres," the Goddess of Agriculture, 
holding a sickle in her hands, and to complete 
the group, on either side is a model of the high- 
est type of dairy cows. The one on the right 
represents the Jersey breed, and is modeled from 
a famous cow of Dr. Still's, at Kirksville, Mis 
souri. This cow was entered in the World's Fair 
stock show and won a prize. She was sold Mon- 
day, September 19th, for $2,350.00, to a resident 
of New York. This cow's head and neck is resting 
on a sheaf of wheat and her nose is in the lap of 
" Ceres." On the top of her neck the left arm of 
the goddess is supported. As an evidence of the 
work done by the artist as shown in the perfect 
likeness of this cow, the children of the owner of 
the original when they saw this model, recognized 
it as their cow and called it by name. The cow 
on the left represents the Holstein breed, and 
is modeled from a very famous cow of M. E. 
Moore's, at Cameron. This cow was in the test 
at the World's Fair and made 270 pounds of 
butter in ninety days. The owner of the original 
of this model pronounced this a perfect like- 
ness or reproduction. 

This entire exhibit is made of solid butter, abso- 
lutely pure, there being used over 3,000 pounds. 



This is one of the remarkable features of the 
exhibit, as the usual way is to make the statues 
out of something else, and cover them with butter. 
The butter out of which this exhibit is made is the 
product from 75,000 pounds of milk, or 9,000 gal- 
lons, which would be equal to an average milking 
from 6,000 cows. On the walls of this space an 
impressive story is told of the progress made in 
dairy methods and the manner of handling the 
raw material, in frieze work. The walls are cov- 
ered several inches thick with butter, and the 
figures used are made in bold relief. Commencing 
at the left on the end space is the figure of a 
woman churning with the old-fashioned churn. In 
the next corner is a woman skimming a pan of 
milk on which the cream has raised by the old 
gravity process. This represents "the old 
method." Between the two, on the floor of a 
scantily furnished log house, is a boy feeding a 



dog. To the right of this, at right angles, is the 
mother playing with her children, while a boy is 
separating the milk with a centrifugal separator. 
This represents "the new method." Around the 
corner from this is a reproduction of the seal of 
the state of Missouri. All of this is done in but- 
ter. This exhibit is in a refrigerator with a glass 
front of three thicknesses of plate glass and an 
air space between each two. At one end of the case 
is an ice-making machine in constant operation, 
and the temperature inside of the case is kept 
below freezing. The space occupied by Missouri's 
butter exhibit is eight feet by twenty-eight feet, 
making 224 square feet of floor space, and about 
325 square feet of wall space. The work done on 
it was equal to three months work for one man, 
and its magnitude is commensurate with the pos- 
sibilities of the great state represented by it. 



MISSOURI'S BIG CHEESE 



N its design and construction, .Mis- which Missouri carries on all lines of agriculture, 
souri's cheese exhibit is a wonder- This is a full cream cheese and weighs over 3,000 
ful thing because of its being the pounds. It required ten men to unload it and put it 
first and only one of the kind. In in the case, and it took four horses hitched to a 
its size it is typical of the extensive scale on heavy truck wagon to haul it from the freight car to 

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MISSOURI'S CHEESE EXHIBIT. 



the Agricultural Building. As indicated on the card 
inside of the case, it was made in Altamont, Daviess 
county, in which part of the state a large propor- 
tion of Missouri's cheese factories are located. 
On the face of the cheese is moulded a 
typical milk cow, represented as being in clover 
with a milkmaid by her side, sitting on a stool, 
engaged in milking. To make this cheese required 
35,000 pounds of milk, a car load and a half, one 



milking from 3,000 ordinary cows. The milk out 
of which this cheese was made was purchased 
from 150 dairymen, it is seven feet in diameter 
and was put into the case where it is now on ex- 
hibition in the original hoop in which it was 
pressed. This case is made exactly the same as 
the butter case and the temperature is held at 
about 35 to 40 degrees. 




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